Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento

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Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento († after 98) was an eloquent, enterprising Roman senator and three-time consul in the 1st century AD.

Fabricius Veiento was perhaps a son or grandson of Aulus Didius Gallus and was probably adopted by a Fabricius Veiento. As a praetor under Emperor Nero , he mocked racing with dog races.

In 62 Fabricius Veiento was exiled because, according to the historian Tacitus ,

“Had testified much dishonorable against senators and priests in his writings, to which he had given the title wills . In addition, the prosecutor Tullius Geminus alleged that Fabricius Veiento had traded in the emperor's graces and entitlements to a career in office. This was the reason for Nero to take over the chairmanship of the hearing, and since Fabricius Veiento was convicted, he expelled him from Italy and had his books burned, which were sought and eagerly read as long as they could only be obtained under danger, later let permission to own them have been forgotten. "

Pardoned by Emperor Vespasian , Fabricius Veiento held his first suffect consulate under him . Under the emperors Titus and Domitian he was two more suffect consul, in the years 80 and 83. As a comes he took part in the German war of Domitian in the year 83 or 89. During a state visit to Mainz as part of this, he made an extensive consecration gift in the temple of the Vangionic goddess Nemetona , which is an example of the very wide acceptance of local gods by the Roman administration.

Although Fabricius Veiento belonged to the consilium (advisory staff) of Domitian, he remained undisturbed under the emperors Nerva and Trajan . Fabricius Veiento was a member of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis and sodalis Augustalis (imperial priest).

literature

  • Rudolf Hanslik : Fabricius II. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 503.
  • Steven H. Rutledge: Imperial Inquisitions. Prosecutors and informants from Tiberius to Domitian . Routledge, London 2001, ISBN 0-415-23700-9 , pp. 229-232 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cassius Dio in Xiphilinos , Römische Geschichte 61,6,2.
  2. ↑ Tacitus, Annalen 14,50,1 f.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Behn : Romance and Migration of Nations. Central Europe between Augustus and Charlemagne. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachf., Stuttgart 1963, p. 93.
personal data
SURNAME Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento, Aulus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veiento, Aulus Fabricius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul 80 and 83
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH after 98